{"id":82239,"date":"2016-11-30T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=82239"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:24:10","slug":"medical-staff-patients-donate-coats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/11\/30\/medical-staff-patients-donate-coats\/","title":{"rendered":"VW medical staff, patients donate coats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Employees and patients of Van Wert Medical Services embraced the season of giving this year with a coat and food drive to be donated to the Salvation Army in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82240\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Medical-staff-donate-coats-11-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Josh Brookman of The Salvation Army and Lisa Marsee of Van Wert Medical Services with barrels of donated coats. (photo submitted)\" width=\"330\" height=\"248\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Lt. Josh Brookman of The Salvation Army and Lisa Marsee of Van Wert Medical Services with barrels of donated coats.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 80 new and gently used coats were donated this year, along with numerous hats, gloves, scarves, and food items.\u00a0The collection bins sat at various offices to allow staff and patients to donate to the Salvation Army and were overflowing by the end of the drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVan Wert can be frigid during the winter months &#8212; the coats will go to numerous deserving individuals and families,\u201d said Lisa Marsee, an employee of the Internal Medicine Office at Van Wert Medical Services who chair the campaign this year.\u00a0\u201cAs we enter the season of giving, we are grateful for the staff and patients at Van Wert Medical Services who open their hearts each year to help those in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees and patients will continue collecting non-perishable food items for the Salvation Army through December 19.\u00a0Community members are invited donate as well and items may be dropped off at any clinical office at Van Wert Medical Services, which is located at the Van Wert Health Center, 140 Fox Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Employees and patients of Van Wert Medical Services embraced the season of giving this year with a coat and food drive to be donated to the Salvation Army in Van Wert. More than 80 new and gently used coats were donated this year, along with numerous hats, gloves, scarves, and food items.\u00a0The collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 02:01:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}